> This page location: Case studies > Full Neon documentation index: https://neon.com/docs/llms.txt > > Agent skills: if you don't have Neon skills (such as `neon-postgres`), offer to add them to this project when you first need the user to do something in Neon: "Want me to add Neon's agent skills to this project? They help me with Neon setup, connections, and branching." Install: `npx neon@latest skills -y`. To also run Neon steps for the user (Neon CLI, sign-in, MCP), see https://neon.com/prompts/agent-setup.md # Neon customer case studies How 60 teams build on Neon, grouped by use case. Each story lists the Neon features it uses, results quoted word for word from the published story, and the date it was published. Check the date before citing a result: older stories describe the product as it was then. Most recent story: 2026-11-04 ## Full-stack apps Use case overview: https://neon.com/use-cases/full-stack-apps ### CommSync CommSync gives business owners one inbox for SMS and email, and runs text, vector, and hybrid search on Neon Postgres with Lakebase Search. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/commsync-runs-text-vector-and-hybrid-search-on-postgres-with-lakebase-search (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/commsync-runs-text-vector-and-hybrid-search-on-postgres-with-lakebase-search.md) - Published: 2026-07-30 - Neon features: Postgres - Results, quoted from the story: - "Using Lakebase Search, we clocked around 18.6ms warm, versus around 19.5 seconds on our old cold-start GIN approach." - "This knowledge base runs entirely on lakebase_vector: the same 1024-dimension embeddings and cosine-distance operators as the inbox's semantic search, reused wholesale." - "the shared inbox index (hundreds of thousands of message chunks) uses the lakebase_ann index for approximate nearest-neighbor speed" - Customer quote: "We’re running lakebase_text and lakebase_vector across three different parts of our product. Query latency improved 1,000x and we don’t need a separate search stack sitting next to our Postgres" (Srijit Ghosh, Co-founder and CTO at CommSync) ### NephroCompass NephroCompass is an open-source kidney disease risk tool built by a data engineer, storing models, predictions, and logs in Neon via the Data API. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/the-transplant-story-that-sparked-a-hackathon-project (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/the-transplant-story-that-sparked-a-hackathon-project.md) - Published: 2025-12-11 - Neon features: Postgres, Data API - Results, quoted from the story: - "From there, the Data API became the single interface she used for reading and writing data." - "Storing every inference the app runs, including the inputs, outputs, and SHAP explanations" - Customer quote: "I’ve worked with Postgres, Snowflake, and AWS in my professional environment, but for building a side project, I wanted something easier to set up. It hardly took me 10 minutes to understand how to link Neon with my application and how to make my ML workflows connect to it" (Deepti Bahel, Data Engineer and creator of NephroCompass) ### Axess Intelligence Axess Intelligence gives GTM teams competitive CRM insights and runs its mobile rewards app on Neon's Data API with branch-based environments. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-axess-intelligence-simplified-their-backend-with-neons-data-api (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-axess-intelligence-simplified-their-backend-with-neons-data-api.md) - Published: 2025-11-20 - Neon features: Postgres, Data API, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "Each Neon branch automatically gets its own Data API URL. The team maintains a production branch, a development branch, and feature-specific branches for testing new ideas." - "The Data API replaces hundreds of lines of repetitive CRUD logic." - Customer quote: "We didn’t want to spend unnecessary time writing CRUD logic or maintaining a backend. We just connected Better Auth and the Data API and started building. The best part: every Neon branch gets its own Data API URL" (Mouaz Anan, Engineer at Axess Intelligence) ### Daisy Daisy is a generative media studio whose main app and mini apps share one Neon database and Neon Auth for a single login. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/integrating-postgres-and-auth-the-easy-way-daisys-neon-setup (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/integrating-postgres-and-auth-the-easy-way-daisys-neon-setup.md) - Published: 2025-11-18 - Neon features: Postgres, Managed Better Auth - Results, quoted from the story: - "Every Daisy app uses the same Google login through Neon Auth, ensuring users only sign in once across the entire platform." - "Adding a new mini app is as simple as approving it inside Neon Auth’s configuration list." - "Daisy maintains a single Neon project where both app data and user identities live." - Customer quote: "Using Neon with Neon Auth just made everything simpler. Our database and auth live in the same place, and it’s the kind of backend you forget it exists. That’s exactly how it should be" (Gabriel Tumlos, Founder of Daisy) ### Databuddy Databuddy is an open source, privacy-first web analytics tool that keeps its transactional metadata in Neon and raw events in ClickHouse. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/databuddy-is-open-sourcing-privacy-first-analytics-built-on-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/databuddy-is-open-sourcing-privacy-first-analytics-built-on-neon.md) - Published: 2025-08-28 - Neon features: Postgres, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Neon stores all structured metadata and takes care of the low-latency relational operations." - "Incoming events are first verified against Neon to confirm ownership and then passed on to ClickHouse." - Customer quote: "I was surprised by how fast Neon was. It was faster than my self-hosted setup and Prisma Postgres. This plus the convenience of the Free Plan makes it a no-brainer for building your projects." (Issa Nassar, founder of Databuddy) ### Vecstore Vecstore is an AI search API built on Rust that replaced Pinecone and AWS RDS with Neon and pgvector for vectors and relational data. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/vecstore-replacing-pinecone-and-rds-with-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/vecstore-replacing-pinecone-and-rds-with-neon.md) - Published: 2025-07-17 - Neon features: Postgres, pgvector, branching, autoscaling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Vectsore operates across four global regions. For each one, they’ve provisioned a separate Neon project (the equivalent of a logical Postgres instance)." - "In Vecstore’s case, they saw latencies that often hit the 200ms range, since every search required two separate calls – one to RDS and one to Pinecone." - Customer quote: "We replaced both Pinecone and RDS with Neon, and latency dropped from 200ms to 80ms with a much simpler setup" (Giorgi Kenchadze, Founder & CEO at Vecstore) ### Velocity Velocity builds an AI production engineer for incident response and moved from RDS to Neon for multi-cloud scaling, branching, and pgvector. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/velocity-future-on-call (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/velocity-future-on-call.md) - Published: 2025-04-01 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, autoscaling, pgvector, Azure - Results, quoted from the story: - "Switching to Neon’s serverless, multi-cloud architecture solved all of these issues, allowing Velocity to scale effortlessly without having to provision or manage dedicated infrastructure per cloud." - "Before running migrations in production, the team creates branches from prod to test the impact and ensure nothing breaks." - Customer quote: "“We used RDS before, but the cost and manual effort of scaling it up and down was a pain. I also wanted one database solution across clouds—and Neon gave us that”" (Tal Kain, Founder and CEO, Velocity) ### Nodecraft Nodecraft is a game server hosting service that runs its serverless backend on Cloudflare Workers and Neon, using branches for development and demos. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/nodecraft-cloudflare-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/nodecraft-cloudflare-neon.md) - Published: 2025-03-20 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "Live demos (e.g. the ones they’re running at GDC) use a dedicated branch that resets every hour, allowing a clean slate for showcasing their platform without hassle." - "Every developer gets their own isolated Neon branch to test changes without interfering with production data." - "Neon serves as the central database, storing core user data such as game settings and mod configurations." - Customer quote: "Moving from legacy infrastructure to a fully serverless stack has been a huge upgrade. We wanted our backend to be as hands-off as possible. Now we get all the power of Postgres, without having to think about it" (James Ross, Co-founder and CTO at Nodecraft) ### RagRabbit RagRabbit is an open-source RAG search tool that stores embeddings in Neon Postgres with pgvector and deploys on Vercel. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/ragrabbit-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/ragrabbit-neon.md) - Published: 2025-03-17 - Neon features: Postgres, pgvector, scale to zero, Vercel integration - Results, quoted from the story: - "Instead of relying on an external vector DB, these embeddings are stored in Postgres with the pgVector extension." - "Choose Vercel, connect to a Neon Postgres database, and you’re set—no separate vector cluster or additional job workers." - Customer quote: "With Neon, I get pgVector for embeddings, plus all the regular Postgres features like full-text search. It’s a single DB for everything—no need for multiple systems" (Marco D’Alia, Software Architect behind RagRabbit) ### Zap.xyz Zap.xyz is a crypto sentiment aggregator that ingests messages into Neon and uses Inngest on Neon logical replication for change data capture. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-zap-xyz-built-a-serverless-cdc-pipeline-with-neon-and-inngest (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-zap-xyz-built-a-serverless-cdc-pipeline-with-neon-and-inngest.md) - Published: 2025-02-12 - Neon features: Postgres, logical replication, connection pooling, autoscaling - Results, quoted from the story: - "is a new crypto aggregation platform that processes millions of messages from community channels like Telegram" - "We spent about 10 hours just trying to build a proof of concept in AWS" - Customer quote: "Inngest + Neon handle the entire change data capture process for us. Setting it up took a fraction of the time compared to AWS" (Jacob Devore, Co-Founder at Zap, Zap.xyz) ### 301.Pro 301.Pro is a link shortener with a rules engine that moved its analytics from AWS RDS to Neon across AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/building-301-pro-multi-cloud-with-neon-postgres (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/building-301-pro-multi-cloud-with-neon-postgres.md) - Published: 2024-10-31 - Neon features: Postgres, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "I was able to transition our entire analytics operation from AWS RDS to Neon in about two hours." - "Both AWS Lambda and Cloudflare can direct connect to the Neon, each with their appropriate credentials." - Customer quote: "AWS RDS is overly complex to set up, especially when using fine-grained user permissions. I tried Neon after talking to a few friends who had recommended it and I was able to transition our entire analytics operation from AWS RDS to Neon in about two hours. That tells you how different the UX was and the simplicity of Neon" (Scott Cate, Founder of 301.Pro) ### BeatGig BeatGig is a talent booking marketplace that runs its databases on Neon and uses read replicas to give its team safe analytics access. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/neon-read-replicas-in-the-wild-how-beatgig-uses-them (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/neon-read-replicas-in-the-wild-how-beatgig-uses-them.md) - Published: 2024-10-24 - Neon features: Postgres, read replicas, autoscaling, scale to zero, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "every database BeatGig runs uses autoscaling, and non-prod databases and replicas have autosuspend enabled." - "Among all the solutions the team tested—including Supabase, Google Cloud SQL, RDS, and Aurora—Neon stood out for its fast provisioning, query speed, and native connection pooling, which streamlined their workflow." - Customer quote: "One of the big selling points of Neon was creating read replicas in seconds that scale to zero. We frequently spin up dev servers and sandbox environments, so providing easy, read-only access to the team while keeping maintenance low was a big win for us" (Jeremy Berman, CTO at BeatGig) ## Branching workflows Use case overview: https://neon.com/use-cases/branching-workflows ### Encore Encore deploys apps to users' own AWS or GCP accounts and uses Neon branches to power its Preview Environments, with Neon as a catalog option. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/where-agents-meet-infrastructure-encore-leap-and-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/where-agents-meet-infrastructure-encore-leap-and-neon.md) - Published: 2026-02-25 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Long before Leap, Encore was already using Neon to power one of the most loved features of the platform – Preview Environments." - "At deployment time, developers select infrastructure components from Encore Cloud’s catalog, including Neon as a Postgres database option" - "Encore developers use them to validate migrations, test API changes against real schema and data, and run full integration tests without impacting live systems." - Customer quote: "“Our users were asking for preview environments that already had their data in place. Neon’s branching was exactly what we needed: it lets us copy databases very quickly so teams can validate changes end to end immediately”" (Marcus Kohlberg, Founder at Encore) ### Bitso Bitso, a Latin American digital financial services company, pairs Signadot sandboxes with Neon branches so each engineer gets an isolated production-like database. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/bitso-branching-workflow (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/bitso-branching-workflow.md) - Published: 2026-01-07 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, autoscaling, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "runs a large engineering organization with hundreds of developers and microservices, and a mission-critical system that processes millions of transactions" - "Bitso’s platform is built on hundreds of Java microservices communicating asynchronously through Kafka, making it impossible for a developer to reproduce the entire stack locally." - Customer quote: "Neon’s branching gave us true database isolation. Now every sandbox gets its own isolated Postgres DB whenever required." (Joe Horsnell, Principal Platform Engineer at Bitso) ### Sharing Excess Sharing Excess is a nonprofit food-rescue organization whose small engineering team uses Neon branches per environment and scale-to-zero to ship faster. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/branching-as-the-environment-how-sharing-excess-ships-faster-on-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/branching-as-the-environment-how-sharing-excess-ships-faster-on-neon.md) - Published: 2025-10-23 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Perishable cargo, often in pallets and truckloads, must be split and routed daily across a network of 1,800+ vendors." - "GitHub feature → staging → production merges map one-to-one to Neon branches and environments." - "Branches reset from production and run through on-demand anonymization for easy access in local development." - Customer quote: "For a small team, branching and scale-to-zero just make our lives markedly easier. We’re able to use real data without risky scripts touching production, and we don’t pay overnight for what we don’t use." (Ryan McHenry, Head of Technology, Sharing Excess) ### Marble Marble is an open-source headless CMS that uses Neon as its main database and branches to test migrations against production data. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/marble-is-shipping-faster-with-neon-branching (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/marble-is-shipping-faster-with-neon-branching.md) - Published: 2025-09-15 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "For example, when Marble migrated all users into a new offers model (a change touching every row in the users table), they first ran the migration on a dev branch." - "Marble learned this the hard way when an early migration PR impacted their live database." - Customer quote: "Neon branching makes us a lot faster and more confident when shipping, even as a small team" (Dominik Koch, CEO and Co-Founder of Marble) ### Neptune Neptune, an AI prenup concierge, runs its Next.js app on Vercel with Neon as the primary database and a branch per feature branch. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/neptune-built-a-fast-serverless-backend-with-neon-and-vercel (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/neptune-built-a-fast-serverless-backend-with-neon-and-vercel.md) - Published: 2025-08-13 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Vercel integration - Results, quoted from the story: - "The migration from Google Cloud SQL to Neon took maybe an hour total." - "Developers at Neptune spin up a dedicated Neon branch for each Git feature branch." - "Currently, Neptune uses a Next.js application written in TypeScript, hosted on Vercel, with Neon as the primary database to enable fast development through a branching model for isolated environments." - Customer quote: "We wanted to move as fast and as safely as possible—and Neon’s branching model for Postgres lets us do that. It’s just like working with Git: each developer gets their own branch, tests it, and we never have to worry about coordinating test data or stepping on each other’s toes." (Andy Bonventre, CTO at Neptune) ### Endform Endform runs large Playwright end-to-end test suites and uses Neon as its backing database, with a Neon branch for every pull request. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/endform-wants-to-scale-your-playwright-end-to-end-tests (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/endform-wants-to-scale-your-playwright-end-to-end-tests.md) - Published: 2025-05-15 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "Every PR gets its own Neon branch, spun up via Alchemy, a new Typescript-native infrastructure-as-code tool that the Endform team is loving." - "Customers, organizations, test runs, suite definitions live in Neon." - "Branches include data from the parent branch, which helps catch issues that wouldn’t surface in empty test databases (e.g, a missing default on a NOT NULL column, _true story_)." - Customer quote: "Every tech choice we make is about staying lightweight and scalable. Neon fits that perfectly: we can spin up real Postgres databases in CI, in seconds, with zero hassle." (Oliver Stenbom, Co-founder of Endform) ### Magic Circle Magic Circle is a multiplayer game studio on the web and Discord that stores player data in Neon and uses branches to ship daily. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-magic-circle-scaled-up-to-2m-games-with-cloudfare-and-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-magic-circle-scaled-up-to-2m-games-with-cloudfare-and-neon.md) - Published: 2024-12-12 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "Scaling to millions of games with an infra bill below $500" - "Not only do they iterate multiple times a day, but they also frequently ship entirely new games in under a week." - "Each pull request in GitHub automatically triggers the creation of a dedicated Neon branch via a GitHub Action." - Customer quote: "We’re a small team, but we’re scaling quickly and doing a lot. We’re shipping multiple times a day— to do that, we need to test stuff quickly and merge to main very quickly as well. Neon branches are a game changer for this." (Avi Romanoff, Founder at Magic Circle) ### Mindvalley Mindvalley, a personal growth platform, uses Neon branches for dev and test previews while production stays on Google CloudSQL. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-mindvalley-minimizes-time-to-launch-with-neon-branches (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-mindvalley-minimizes-time-to-launch-with-neon-branches.md) - Published: 2024-10-17 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Neon API, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "The key feature driving this boost in developer velocity is branching, which allows their developers to spin up new previews in less than a minute." - "From this main branch, hundreds of ephemeral environments can be immediately spun up without requiring any additional data syncs." - "In a team of 100 developers, using shared database instances for dev/test quickly became a bottleneck, as developers needed to work on different features simultaneously." - Customer quote: "Developers already face significant delays when working on a PR. Time to launch is crucial for us: when we tried Neon and saw that spinning up a branch takes seconds, we were blown away." (Alex Co, Head of Platform Engineering, Mindvalley) ### Dispatch Dispatch is a last-mile delivery company that keeps production on Aurora and uses Neon branches for ephemeral dev and test environments. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-dispatch-speeds-up-development-with-neon-while-keeping-workloads-on-aurora (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-dispatch-speeds-up-development-with-neon-while-keeping-workloads-on-aurora.md) - Published: 2024-10-14 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, read replicas - Results, quoted from the story: - "They’ve built a custom Neon operator for Kubernetes that automatically creates branches whenever a new ephemeral environment is spun up." - "Developers or QA team members can quickly spin up a new environment by running a simple command with their internal tooling." - "Now, they create read-only replicas in Neon for specific use cases." - Customer quote: "Neon’s branching paradigm has been great for us. It lets us create isolated environments without having to move huge amounts of data around. This has lightened the load on our ops team, now it’s effortless to spin up entire environments." (Jonathan Reyes, Principal Engineer at Dispatch) ### Rubric Labs Rubric Labs is an applied AI lab that uses Neon for internal tools and client projects, with a database branch per developer. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/rubric-labs-can-make-your-ai-dreams-come-true (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/rubric-labs-can-make-your-ai-dreams-come-true.md) - Published: 2024-08-23 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, pgvector - Results, quoted from the story: - "Rubric Labs uses Neon for both internal and client projects." - "This includes GitHub branches for every developer, unique database branches for local and staging, plus their own auth tokens and URLs." - Customer quote: "We love the fact that Neon has branching. We work with a workflow where each developer has a branch with their name, and then we also have a Neon branch associated with a GitHub branch. We love doing that" (Sarim Malik, CEO at Rubric Labs) ### Wordware Wordware is a web IDE for building AI agents with prompts, and uses Neon branches to create preview environments on real data. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/building-ai-agents-just-got-faster-with-wordware-and-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/building-ai-agents-just-got-faster-with-wordware-and-neon.md) - Published: 2024-08-19 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Vercel integration - Results, quoted from the story: - "This deployment process includes hooking up a new Neon branch for the database, making the environment an exact copy of production." - "In Wordware, everything – from Stripe webhooks to just new code that’s being run— gets put on some preview URL using a Neon branch" - "The compounded value of this feature is “immense”, they said—it enables them to identify and fix problems early, preventing major system outages and reducing the need for emergency fixes." - Customer quote: "With Neon’s preview branches, we can catch issues early and fix them before they hit production" (Robert Chandler, Co-founder and CTO, Wordware) ### Comigo.ai Comigo.ai is an AI companion and coach for people with ADHD that moved from Cloud SQL to Neon and uses branches for staging and CI. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/comigo-ai-is-using-neon-to-transform-adhd-support-with-ai (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/comigo-ai-is-using-neon-to-transform-adhd-support-with-ai.md) - Published: 2024-08-02 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "When they first built Comigo, the team initially managed their database using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL." - "For example, a script can be written to create a fresh branch every night for the staging server, ensuring the development site always has an up-to-date copy of the data." - Customer quote: "Neon branching is a big win for us. We can create full data copies at zero cost. For example, we can script a fresh branch every night for our staging server or for each deploy to run integration tests, all without additional costs." (Paul Dlug, CTO at Comigo.ai) ### Shepherd Shepherd is a commercial insurance startup that moved its pricing engine to Neon and creates short-lived branches for every pull request. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/adopting-neon-branching-in-ci-cd-pipelines-a-practical-story-by-shepherd (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/adopting-neon-branching-in-ci-cd-pipelines-a-practical-story-by-shepherd.md) - Published: 2024-07-11 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "Shepherd creates short-lived testing branches for every PR." - "earlier this year Shepherd decided to migrate the database for their pricing engine (called Alchemist) from SQLite to Postgres, looking for a more robust system that could support their growth." - Customer quote: "Branching saves us both money and developer time. We no longer have to set up an actual testing database instance and make sure the data is always synced with production. We now spin up an ephemeral branch when we need to and then tear it down via the create/delete Github Actions" (Angelina Quach, Software Engineer at Shepherd) ### Neo.Tax Neo.Tax automates tax credit calculations and uses Neon branches for deploy previews, end-to-end testing, and reproducing bugs. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/from-days-to-minutes-how-neo-tax-accelerated-their-development-lifecycle (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/from-days-to-minutes-how-neo-tax-accelerated-their-development-lifecycle.md) - Published: 2024-06-03 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "then an engineer would have to go into the database, look at all the values, and handwrite them into fixtures for our end-to-end tests… That’s multiple days for every single change" - "If data becomes corrupted or needs to be reset for any reason, developers can simply reset the branch from the parent development branch. This takes one second." - "For their enterprise customers, who oftentimes need a dedicated tenant, Neo.Tax creates a separate project for that customer." - Customer quote: "Database branching is the best quality-of-life improvement to my tech stack that I can think of in recent years. Second to maybe only Copilot" (Miguel Hernandez, CEO, Neo.Tax) ### Cedalio Cedalio, an ESG data platform, uses Neon for a database-per-customer design and a branch per pull request that scales to zero. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-cedalio-uses-neon-for-an-efficient-development-workflow (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-cedalio-uses-neon-for-an-efficient-development-workflow.md) - Published: 2024-05-29 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "when a developer creates a PR, GitHub Actions trigger the creation of a new database branch in Neon and deploy a corresponding application instance on Fly.io." - "Cedalio can maintain multiple database branches for different PRs without worrying about the bill." - Customer quote: "We love Postgres, and for us, being able to use Postgres database branches that can be integrated with our CI/CD pipeline is a killer feature. The ability to spawn databases that can scale down to zero is also incredibly helpful. This model fits well with our one database per customer architecture." (Guido Marucci, co-founder at Cedalio) ### Supergood Supergood monitors third-party API usage and costs, ingesting API metrics into Neon and using a branch per developer, staging, and data science. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-supergood-unlocked-their-postgres-developer-productivity (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-supergood-unlocked-their-postgres-developer-productivity.md) - Published: 2024-02-20 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, read replicas, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "I just spin up a branch of Postgres for them and they can get onboard on the platform in 2 seconds" - "“The Neon bill is lower than I expect it to be every time”, said Alex." - "Under the hood, Supergood is powered by Neon as their mission-critical database." - Customer quote: "Neon allows us to develop much faster than we’ve even been used to. In traditional setups, you’re just trying to get the data that is representative of real customers—but now, when we build a feature, we’re actually testing it on real data in a matter of minutes. We can get features shipped way faster" (Alex Klarfeld, CEO and co-founder of Supergood.ai) ### Topo Topo.io builds an AI sales assistant and moved from Amazon RDS to Neon for per-developer branches, staging, and safer Prisma migrations. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/why-topo-io-switched-from-amazon-rds-to-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/why-topo-io-switched-from-amazon-rds-to-neon.md) - Published: 2024-02-01 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "After switching to Neon, every developer at Topo.io could get an isolated development environment with up-to-date production data in seconds." - "“I use Branch Reset at least once a day”, Leo told us." - Customer quote: "The killer feature that convinced us to use Neon was branching: it keeps our engineering velocity high." (Léonard Henriquez, Co-founder and CTO at Topo.io) ### Bunnyshell Bunnyshell is an environments-as-a-service platform that shipped a Neon connector to provision Postgres for its users' ephemeral environments. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/neon-bunnyshell-integration (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/neon-bunnyshell-integration.md) - Published: 2023-03-30 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "The Bunnyshell team recently shipped a Neon connector enabling users to provision a Neon Postgres instance for all of their environments." - Customer quote: "The fact that the Postgres databases are already populated with the data you need for your environment and the near-instant provisioning time made Neon the top choice for short-lived environments, which get created often." (Sorin Dumitrescu, VP of Engineering at Bunnyshell) ### Proposales Proposales builds proposal tools for hoteliers and uses Neon branches for development and testing while keeping production on RDS. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/frictionless-development-experience-with-neon-branching (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/frictionless-development-experience-with-neon-branching.md) - Published: 2022-12-08 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "They decided to keep RDS on production but use Neon and its database branching capabilities for development, replacing Postgres with Docker and RDS." - "Proposales used RDS for their development environment, but it was an expensive choice." - Customer quote: "With the Neon branching feature, our developers can change their database to test their features without affecting other team members. Branching allows us to confidently do our database migrations to production." (Camelia Smeria, Lead Engineer at Proposales) ### ketteQ ketteQ is a supply chain planning company that creates a Neon branch for each customer scenario so users can model many scenarios at once. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/database-branching-for-postgres-with-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/database-branching-for-postgres-with-neon.md) - Published: 2022-12-06 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "With Neon and database branching, ketteQ creates a branch for each user’s scenario to allow its customers to model many different scenarios simultaneously and compare the results of their analysis to find the optimal business outcome." - "They can create hundreds of branches to scale to meet the customers’ demands without provisioning additional resources." - Customer quote: "Certain clients of ours, with a large user base, need to maintain hundreds of scenarios at any time. Neon capabilities allow us to scale to meet our customers’ needs to be able to maintain and run these scenarios." (Vasu Narayan, Senior Vice President of Product at ketteQ) ## Bursty workloads Use case overview: https://neon.com/use-cases/bursty-workloads ### DAT DAT is a Pakistan-based startup that manages field staff through messaging apps, running its write-heavy message pipeline on Neon. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/dat-streams-millions-of-staff-messages-through-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/dat-streams-millions-of-staff-messages-through-neon.md) - Published: 2025-09-29 - Neon features: Postgres, read replicas, autoscaling, scale to zero, branching, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "Today, the company powers mission-critical operations for the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC), Pakistan’s largest public sector employer with more than 16,000 staff across multiple districts." - "Every message in our pipeline triggers four or five jobs, all written into the database. We’re processing around 10 million transactions a month" - "Since our workload is write-heavy, we use Neon’s primary instance for nonstop ingestion, and then spin up read replicas for dashboards and analytics" - Customer quote: "During the Eid cleanup, we have thousands of workers sending nonstop updates for three straight days. Neon just scales with the load – sometimes the write side, sometimes the read side – and we don’t have to touch a thing" (Ahsan Nabi Dar, CTO and co-founder of DAT) ### SMASHSEND SMASHSEND is an AI-powered email marketing tool for small businesses that moved its bursty Postgres workload from AWS RDS to Neon. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/smashsend-from-rds-to-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/smashsend-from-rds-to-neon.md) - Published: 2025-06-03 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling, connection pooling, branching, Vercel integration - Results, quoted from the story: - "The SMASHSEND team ended up paying $1,000 to $1,500 every month, even when the database was idle most of the time" - "They followed a straightforward migration plan, and were fully moved over by the end of the afternoon" - "The moment SMASHSEND switched, their background jobs stopped failing." - Customer quote: "We moved from AWS RDS to Neon and the benefits have already been massive. We cut our database bill from $1,500 to $70 a month" (Jorge Ferreiro, Founder of SMASHSEND) ### Vapi Vapi lets developers build voice AI agents and runs all its business-critical Postgres workloads on Neon to absorb spiky call traffic. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/vapi-voice-agents-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/vapi-voice-agents-neon.md) - Published: 2025-02-21 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Neon now powers all of Vapi’s business-critical Postgres workloads." - "Vapi migrated from Supabase to Neon for exactly this reason: real-time autoscaling." - "Some of Vapi’s customers have a steady flow of interactions, while others trigger massive spikes (like outbound sales campaigns or a rise in customer service requests) that can generate thousands of concurrent calls." - Customer quote: "Neon’s serverless model is a perfect fit for us. Some of our AI voice agents handle thousands of calls in an instant, and then traffic drops off just as fast. With Neon, we don’t have to think about scaling—it just happens" (Tejas Siripurapu, Founding Engineer at Vapi.ai) ### Invenco Invenco is a logistics SaaS company that moved its Lambda-based services from Aurora Serverless v2 to Neon to handle spiky e-commerce traffic. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/why-invenco-migrated-from-aurora-serverless-v2-to-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/why-invenco-migrated-from-aurora-serverless-v2-to-neon.md) - Published: 2024-11-05 - Neon features: Postgres, connection pooling, autoscaling, scale to zero, branching, logical replication - Results, quoted from the story: - "Invenco reduced database costs by 80%, improved performance, and ensured smooth operations during high-traffic events." - "Invenco’s bill with Neon is approximately 1/6 of what they paid with Aurora." - "Production databases use autoscaling with minimum limit around 2 CUs and a higher maximum limit to handle traffic spikes." - Customer quote: "Neon worked out of the box, handling hundreds of Lambdas without any of the connection issues we saw in Aurora Serverless v2. On top of that, Neon costs us 1/6 of what we were paying with AWS" (Cody Jenkins, Head of Engineering, Invenco) ### BaseHub BaseHub is a headless CMS that moved from Supabase to Neon for autoscaling with variable traffic, plus branching and the serverless driver. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/meet-basehub-developer-velocity-and-efficiency-right-down-to-the-database (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/meet-basehub-developer-velocity-and-efficiency-right-down-to-the-database.md) - Published: 2024-09-10 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling, scale to zero, branching, serverless driver - Results, quoted from the story: - "For short periods of time, BaseHub needed more compute—but in Supabase (like in most Postgres databases) there was no compute autoscaling, which forced them to overprovision resources." - "BaseHub also uses the Neon serverless driver to connect Cloudflare Workers directly to Neon, which helped them get faster performance across regions." - "All changes going to production are first tested on an isolated branch and only applied to production once they’re safe." - Customer quote: "Databases have always been such a pain in terms of the migration flow, backups, scaling, risk of breaking production… In Neon, everything feels easier and much safer to do" (Julian Benegas, CEO, BaseHub) ### 222 222 curates in-person social experiences and relies on Neon autoscaling for evening and weekend traffic peaks, plus branches for migrations. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-222-uses-neon-to-handle-their-frequent-spikes-in-demand (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-222-uses-neon-to-handle-their-frequent-spikes-in-demand.md) - Published: 2024-06-25 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling, branching, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "When we launched our iOS app in February, we charted on the App Store; Neon’s managed database experience made it effortless to handle this traffic." - "This tooling, built on Neon’s REST API and the open-source Goose library, allows the team to run schema migrations on an exact copy of their production database without touching their production data." - Customer quote: "Our database traffic peaks at nights and on weekends when thousands of our members are attending experiences. Building on a database that preemptively autoscales allows us to regularly handle these traffic spikes." (Lex Nasser, Founding Engineer, 222) ### White Widget White Widget is a software design and engineering agency that uses Neon as the Postgres backend for many client apps, with autoscaling and read replicas. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/white-widgets-secret-to-scalable-postgres-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/white-widgets-secret-to-scalable-postgres-neon.md) - Published: 2024-03-21 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling, read replicas, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Their apps have reached 50 million users and counting." - "Before finding Neon, White Widget relied on managed Postgres instances from GCP’s Cloud SQL, but the rigidity of this service made it hard to automatically scale resources to match varying traffic." - "By directing their read queries to read replicas during periods of high traffic, White Widget liberates load in the main compute and ensures optimal performance." - Customer quote: "Neon perfectly meets our needs for a Postgres solution that scales with demand. We can push the boundaries of what’s possible in our projects without compromising efficiency or costs" (Technical Director at White Widget) ### Recrowd Recrowd is an Italian real estate crowdfunding company that moved from MySQL on Azure to Neon to autoscale through investment-opening traffic peaks. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-recrowd-uses-neon-autoscaling-to-meet-fluctuating-demand (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-recrowd-uses-neon-autoscaling-to-meet-fluctuating-demand.md) - Published: 2024-03-01 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Right when a new investment project opens, something that typically happens a few times per month, the traffic in Recrowd’s website skyrockets, as thousands of investors request to invest in the new opportunity." - Customer quote: "Thanks to autoscaling, we no longer have to worry about performance during our openings or wasting time resizing instances" (Pieralberto Colombo, CTO at Recrowd) ### Branch Branch is a home and auto insurance company that moved from DynamoDB to Neon for real Postgres that scales to zero, with branches per developer. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/branch-chose-neon-for-its-true-postgres-and-serverless-nature (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/branch-chose-neon-for-its-true-postgres-and-serverless-nature.md) - Published: 2024-01-18 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero, autoscaling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Each developer at Branch is provided with their own isolated deployment environment using Neon’s database branching, ensuring a streamlined developer workflow." - "Zero time spent on database capacity and infrastructure management." - "This led them to explore other options, including Aurora Serverless v1 and v2, and other distributed, and MySQL providers, but none met their needs of fast scale-up or scale-down to zero, resulting in a substantial bill for idle instances." - Customer quote: "Using Neon has meant our developers can continue to spend their time on things that meaningfully drive the business forward, instead of babysitting infrastructure." (Adithya Reddy, Developer 4 at Branch) ## Large databases Use case overview: https://neon.com/use-cases/large-databases ### traconiq traconiq manages logistics vehicle fleets and moved its multi-terabyte telemetry Postgres from Amazon RDS to Neon, using branches and autoscaling. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/why-traconiq-migrated-from-aws-rds-to-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/why-traconiq-migrated-from-aws-rds-to-neon.md) - Published: 2025-07-01 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, autoscaling, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "In database-land, this means handling a continuous stream of position and engine data across thousands of vehicles, ingesting hundreds of records per second, and storing several terabytes of Postgres data at any given time." - "In RDS, that meant four separate instances, each sized for multi-terabyte storage and high-ingestion traffic." - "All production branches run with autoscaling enabled, which allows traconiq to accommodate daytime ingestion spikes of over 100 records per second, and at the same time, scale down automatically during quiet nighttime hours to save compute costs." - Customer quote: "Our workload ingests hundreds of data points per second and our RDS costs were increasing. With Neon, we found a way to scale our setup more efficiently" (Thorsten Rieß, Software Architect at traconiq) ### DEV DEV runs the dev.to developer community on Neon after migrating off Heroku Postgres, using autoscaling and read replicas for analytics. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/dev-from-heroku-to-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/dev-from-heroku-to-neon.md) - Published: 2025-06-19 - Neon features: Postgres, autoscaling, read replicas - Results, quoted from the story: - "Their main database stores most of the platform’s application logic and state – prod was 1.2TB at the moment of migration and it’s growing steadily." - "Our Heroku bill was thousands of dollars a month, and we knew this bill was inflated." - "They’re connecting tools like Metabase and their in-house workflow automation scripts to these replicas, with plans to do more over time." - Customer quote: "What first attracted us to Neon was the efficient scaling. What kept us interested were all the thoughtful developer-experience wins." (Ben Halpern, DEV Co-Founder) ## Agents Use case overview: https://neon.com/use-cases/ai-agents ### Kylon Kylon is an AI workspace where teams and their agents build apps together, with each app's data in its own Neon database. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/inside-a-kylon-room-where-people-and-agents-build-apps-on-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/inside-a-kylon-room-where-people-and-agents-build-apps-on-neon.md) - Published: 2026-11-04 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero, autoscaling, Neon API, MCP server - Results, quoted from the story: - "Kylon creates a branch per draft, an in-progress version of an app that an agent or a person opens to make changes, which only goes live when someone publishes it" - "Each app inside that workspace gets its own isolated Neon database" - "if an agent makes a mistake on a table, the agent itself can also easily undo it" - Customer quote: "The draft workflow would have been much harder to build elsewhere: branch, let the agent try it, let a person check it, then publish. Without cheap branches, we'd have had to choose between safety and speed" (Quinn Leng, co-founder at Kylon) ### Skydive Skydive lets teams build AI coworkers whose agents deploy their own isolated Neon Postgres backends mid-task through the Neon API. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/inside-skydive-building-virtual-coworkers-powered-by-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/inside-skydive-building-virtual-coworkers-powered-by-neon.md) - Published: 2026-09-29 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, autoscaling, scale to zero, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "When a Skydive agent needs a durable state, it deploys an isolated Neon backend mid-task, with no human in the path, and it takes it around a second." - "That call hits Skydive’s API, which creates a Neon project with a single main branch on Postgres 18, writes the pooled connection string to the agent’s secret store, and injects it into the sandbox as DATABASE_URL." - "Small: 1 GiB storage quota and 0.25 CU (most databases stay here)" - Customer quote: "Our agents create their own infrastructure. That only works if a database is as cheap and as fast to make as a file" (Dhruv Amin, Co-founder and CEO at Skydive) ### Specific.dev Specific is a cloud for coding agents that provisions a Neon database per project through the Neon API, with branches for preview environments. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-specific-provisions-thousands-of-databases-for-coding-agents-using-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-specific-provisions-thousands-of-databases-for-coding-agents-using-neon.md) - Published: 2026-03-18 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, branching, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Specific is now managing over 10,000 Neon databases. New projects provision within a second." - "Thousands of Neon databases provisioned every month by specific.dev users." - "Preview environments for every pull request use Neon branching to give the user full-stack application previews where data reflects what is in production but changes are isolated." - Customer quote: "“I’m genuinely surprised by how well it handles that scale. You can create tons of databases and they’re available immediately. You can branch out immediately. All of those things make it really nice for agent-managed infra.”" (Iman Radjavi, co-founder at Specific.dev) ### QwikBuild QwikBuild is an AI app builder, first launched on WhatsApp, that provisions one isolated Neon project for every generated app. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/inside-qwikbuild-neon-powered-architecture (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/inside-qwikbuild-neon-powered-architecture.md) - Published: 2026-02-26 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, autoscaling, scale to zero, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "since it first launched, more than 15,000 creators have already used QwikBuild to build websites and apps for their businesses." - "Neon is used to provision one isolated Postgres DB for each app" - Customer quote: "“Soon, AI agents will do most of the coding, and perhaps 1000x more database instances will be needed. Neon’s platform and pricing strategy feel aligned with that future”" (Nilesh Trivedi, co-founder and CTO at QwikBuild) ### Strapi Strapi built Fimo.ai, an AI-native CMS for live websites, which runs one Neon database per app with dev and prod branches. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/meet-fimo-ai-the-ai-native-cms-from-strapi (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/meet-fimo-ai-the-ai-native-cms-from-strapi.md) - Published: 2026-01-21 - Neon features: Postgres, branching - Results, quoted from the story: - "with two branches per app: a dev branch for building and iteration, and a prod branch for live traffic." - "Fimo also uses snapshots for promotion and rollbacks" - Customer quote: "Our agent Fimo lets teams experiment without fear because you can always roll back. Neon’s branches and snapshots are what make that possible" (Pierre Burgy, CEO of Strapi) ### Atoms Atoms is a multi-agent AI app builder that gives every generated app its own Neon project, with auth and scale-to-zero. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/atoms-is-out-a-multi-agent-ai-team-that-builds-full-stack-apps-for-you (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/atoms-is-out-a-multi-agent-ai-team-that-builds-full-stack-apps-for-you.md) - Published: 2026-01-13 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, Managed Better Auth, scale to zero, autoscaling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Every new app created with Atoms receives its own dedicated Neon instance." - "They’re part of the Neon Agent Plan, taking advantage of higher resource limits and special pricing to power their projected scale of millions of projects." - "This lets Atoms deploy thousands of concurrent apps while aligning infrastructure cost perfectly with real usage." - Customer quote: "We chose Neon as our backend because of scale, cost-efficiency, and superior developer and user experience, all critical for Atoms’ multi-tenant architecture" (Engineering Team, at Atoms) ### xpander.ai xpander.ai is a backend for building and running AI agents, and it stores each tenant's agent memory in a dedicated Neon project. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/xpander-ai-agents-slack-neon-backend (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/xpander-ai-agents-slack-neon-backend.md) - Published: 2025-08-07 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "When a new tenant is created, xpander automatically provisions a Neon project for them, complete with agent memory, tool configurations, and session history." - "Cost stays low – each project can be assigned a small compute unit, and when idle, they autosuspend automatically." - Customer quote: "For every tenant in our system, we create a dedicated project in Neon. That lets us isolate memory and scale cleanly as agent usage grows." (Ran Sheinberg, Co-founder and CPO, xpander.ai) ### Dyad Dyad is a local-first, open-source AI app builder whose Portal template uses Neon Postgres, with branches powering database undo and checkpoints. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/dyad-brings-postgres-to-local-ai-app-building-powered-by-neon (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/dyad-brings-postgres-to-local-ai-app-building-powered-by-neon.md) - Published: 2025-08-06 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "Behind the scenes, Dyad uses Neon’s branching and Instant Restore APIs to implement this workflow." - "When a user creates or edits an app, Dyad writes those changes to a development branch (a child of the production branch)." ### Riff Riff is a vibe coding tool whose AI agent builds full-stack apps, and every new app gets its own Neon Postgres project and auth. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/riff-neon-integration (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/riff-neon-integration.md) - Published: 2025-06-19 - Neon features: Postgres, Managed Better Auth, Neon API, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Every time someone creates a new Riff app, Neon silently spins up a dedicated Postgres project behind the scenes, complete with its own storage, compute, and connection strings." - "If a user wants to take their data with them, Riff can transfer ownership of the Neon project in one API call" - "Previously, setting up data persistence and authentication meant wiring up third-party tools like Supabase." - Customer quote: "Integrating Neon was a no-brainer. It gives every Riff app a production-grade Postgres database in seconds, with zero overhead" (Martin Skow Røed, CTO and co-founder of Riff) ### Anything Anything (formerly Create) is an AI app builder that bakes a Neon Postgres database into every generated app and tests schema migrations on branches. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/from-idea-to-full-stack-app-in-one-conversation-with-create (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/from-idea-to-full-stack-app-in-one-conversation-with-create.md) - Published: 2025-02-12 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, scale to zero, Neon API - Results, quoted from the story: - "Create bakes-in a Postgres database from the start—and that’s where Neon comes in." - "the system automatically generates the necessary database migration and applies it to an isolated Neon branch, which acts as a separate environment where the changes can be tested first." - Customer quote: "Neon’s speed of provisioning and serverless scale-to-zero is critical for us. We can serve users iterating on quick ideas efficiently while also supporting them as they scale, without making them think about database setup." (Dhruv Amin, Co-founder at Anything) ## Platforms Use case overview: https://neon.com/platforms ### LuBot LuBot is a chat product for business analytics that uses the Neon API to provision an isolated Postgres database for each paying customer. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/inside-lubots-database-per-tenant-architecture (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/inside-lubots-database-per-tenant-architecture.md) - Published: 2026-09-14 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, Neon API, autoscaling, scale to zero, connection pooling - Results, quoted from the story: - "Six days from zero to a working per-user Neon branch on payment." - "In LuBot, the most common configuration is a 0.25 CU active floor and a 4 CU burst ceiling." - "Each tenant in LuBot has 52 tables across four schemas" - Customer quote: "It took six days to go from zero to isolated Postgres per tenant, provisioned the moment someone pays. A traditional Postgres setup would have been a full quarter of work." (Lubo Bali, Founder of LuBot) ### Zite Zite is an AI app builder from the Fillout team that gives every end user their own Neon Postgres database for Zite Database. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-zite-provisions-isolated-postgres-databases-for-every-user (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-zite-provisions-isolated-postgres-databases-for-every-user.md) - Published: 2026-02-06 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Because Neon is usage-based and can scale down databases when they aren’t being used, we’re able to deploy thousands of new databases per day without costs getting out of hand" - "Some Zite customers were building lightweight apps, while others were sending thousands of requests per second." - "Zite uses Neon’s TypeScript API client to provision and manage databases directly from their application code." - Customer quote: "We were getting ready to hire dedicated engineers just to manage and scale Zite Database. With Neon, we didn’t need to do that – we were able to give every end user their own database, including on the free plan" (Dominic Whyte, Co-founder at Zite) ### Retool Retool, a tool for building internal apps, powers RetoolDB with one Neon project per end user, managed through the Neon API. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-retool-uses-retool-and-the-neon-api-to-manage-300k-postgres-databases (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-retool-uses-retool-and-the-neon-api-to-manage-300k-postgres-databases.md) - Published: 2024-03-29 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "This streamlined architecture enables Retool to manage +300,000 database projects with minimal engineering overhead—the fleet is currently managed by one engineer." - "Retool creates one Neon project per every end user, each project with one Postgres database." - "When a new Retool user signs up, they’re automatically assigned a pre-created, unclaimed database from a pool of Neon projects." - Customer quote: "We’ve been able to manage 300K+ Postgres databases via the Neon API. It saved us a tremendous amount of time and engineering effort." (Himanshu Bhandoh, Software Engineer at Retool) ### OpusFlow OpusFlow is a Dutch ERP tool for solar installers that gives every customer an isolated Postgres database in its own Neon project. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/how-opusflow-achieves-tenant-isolation-in-postgres-without-managing-servers (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/how-opusflow-achieves-tenant-isolation-in-postgres-without-managing-servers.md) - Published: 2024-02-22 - Neon features: Postgres, branching, autoscaling, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "They implement a single tenancy system: every OpusFlow customer has their own isolated Postgres database living in a separate Neon project." - "OpusFlow leverages branching to offer instantaneous point-in-time restores to their customers." - "OpusFlow also has dedicated Neon projects for testing and development, where each developer also gets their own branch." - Customer quote: "Our customers require their data to live in an isolated database, but implementing this in RDS was cumbersome and expensive. We switched over to Neon to reduce costs and operational overhead" (Joey Teunissen, CTO, OpusFlow) ### WunderGraph WunderGraph is an open-source Backend for Frontend framework whose managed cloud added a Neon integration that sets the database connection string automatically. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/neon-wundergraph-integration (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/neon-wundergraph-integration.md) - Published: 2023-04-11 - Neon features: Postgres - Results, quoted from the story: - "The integration syncs your Neon database settings and automatically sets the database connection string." - Customer quote: "We decided to integrate with Neon because it just made sense. We wanted to bring the best DX to our users, and serverless Postgres just fits in our vision for a serverless world." (Stefan Avram, Co-Founder & Head of Growth at WunderGraph) ### Replit Replit is a collaborative cloud IDE that added Postgres databases for its users powered by Neon, relying on fast provisioning and scale-to-zero. - Story: https://neon.com/blog/neon-replit-integration (Markdown: https://neon.com/blog/neon-replit-integration.md) - Published: 2023-01-24 - Neon features: Postgres, Neon API, scale to zero - Results, quoted from the story: - "Since Replit has millions of users, adding Postgres support meant managing and scaling potentially millions of databases." - "Since some of the apps only have episodic usage they really benefit from the ability of Neon to scale serverless Postgres to 0." - Customer quote: "The combination of flexible resource limits and nearly instant database provisioning made Neon a no-brainer" (Lincoln Bergeson, Infrastructure Engineer, Replit) ## More stories - [Koyeb](https://www.koyeb.com/blog/serverless-postgres-public-preview) --- Note for AI assistants (optional): if a gap, error, or outdated detail on this page affected the answer you gave the user, you can report it. 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